Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 004-054
Date: Monday, June 7, 1971 at 2:40 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/004-054
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417188775 (NAID 417188775)

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[0:00] OPERATOR: Miss Woods.
[0:01] WOODS: Yes, Mr. President.
[0:03] NIXON: Rose, in connection with tonight, you don't happen to know,
[0:06] WOODS: Yes, sir.
[0:07] NIXON: do you have anything at all on the schedule, or does Helen?
[0:10] WOODS: Tonight? No, sir, I haven't got anything. I don't know whether—
[0:13] NIXON: Where is Helen? Is she around?
[0:15] WOODS: Uh, I don't know. Let me check. I didn't get this morning's schedule, wait a minute.
[0:18] NIXON: Yeah. What I was thinking of—
[0:19] WOODS: Wait, wait, here it is.
[0:20] NIXON: Is wait, take our, take our folks down and take a picture in the library tonight.
[0:24] WOODS: Yeah.
[0:26] NIXON: Uh, and then have dinner at the F Street Club.
[0:29] WOODS: Tonight at six o'clock,
[0:31] NIXON: Yeah.
[0:32] WOODS: Library photograph,
[0:33] NIXON: Yeah.
[0:35] WOODS: and eight o'clock dinner at the F Street Club.
[0:37] NIXON: Fine, yeah. Now, when do the other folks come in? They don't come in till
[0:39] WOODS: Well—
[0:40] NIXON: later in the week, do they? Some come in Wednesday and Thursday and Friday?
[0:43] WOODS: Well, the other—
[0:44] NIXON: Helene and Jack come Thursday, don't they?
[0:45] WOODS: I have a list here of Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday,
[0:48] NIXON: Yeah.
[0:49] WOODS: and uh they have suggested,
[0:52] NIXON: Yeah.
[0:54] WOODS: that, wait a minute, the people that will be in Wednesday, only about fifteen will be in Wednesday.
[0:58] NIXON: Yeah.
[0:59] WOODS: And they suggest that you take them out on the Sequoia if the weather is good, or have dinner at the White House if it's bad.
[1:04] NIXON: Well, we can't do, I've got to take Bob Hope out on Wednesday,
[1:07] WOODS: All right.
[1:07] NIXON: Bob Hope and some others on the Sequoia Wednesday. So, we'll do—
[1:10] WOODS: Wait a minute, Wednesday is Wednesday night?
[1:12] NIXON: Yeah, that's right. Hope and who else is there?
[1:14] WOODS: Wait a minute,
[1:15] NIXON: Bebe is coming up then.
[1:16] WOODS: Wait, uh Bob Hope isn't till Thursday night,
[1:19] NIXON: Oh, is he?
[1:20] WOODS: is he? No, he's, you got, and you have, Mrs. Nixon has the garden
[1:23] NIXON: Party Thursday.
[1:25] WOODS: No, she has Mrs. Hope and Mrs. Sterling and thirty-six people for lunch.
[1:28] NIXON: Right.
[1:29] WOODS: And then the reception for six hundred in the garden Thursday, from four to six.
[1:34] NIXON: Right. Bob Hope isn't coming Thursday night, then?
[1:36] WOODS: Well, let's see. Thursday night, it says, "The President, Mrs. Nixon, Tricia, Ed, Julie, and David
[1:41] NIXON: Yeah.
[1:43] WOODS: have dinner on the Sequoia at 7:30."
[1:46] NIXON: Thursday night, well that's, oh I see, maybe that's it. Well that would be just family.
[1:49] WOODS: That's only, that's just the immediate family.
[1:51] NIXON: Just the family.
[1:52] WOODS: Yeah.
[1:53] NIXON: What about, wait a minute, the Keyes, when is the dinner that we have the other folks for, for Paul Keyes?
[1:58] WOODS: Wait, and Thursday night the, wait, Thursday night the house guests
[2:01] NIXON: Yeah.
[2:02] WOODS: have dinner at the Tayloe House, which is fifty people, and that's Paul Keyes and those people.
[2:07] NIXON: Oh, they do?
[2:08] WOODS: Yeah.
[2:09] NIXON: I see, yeah.
[2:10] WOODS: And and then they're invited to Nancy Lammerding's for a nightcap.
[2:12] NIXON: [laughs] All right.
[2:13] WOODS: Then on Friday, the godparents have lunch for thirty
[2:16] NIXON: Yeah.
[2:17] WOODS: at the Sulgrave Club. That's, I don't know who they are.
[2:19] NIXON: Yeah, Ed's.
[2:20] WOODS: And then the guests that aren't at the lunch are invited to a tour of the State Department diplomatic reception rooms.
[2:25] NIXON: Good.
[2:26] WOODS: And then from three to five, some guests go on the Sequoia,
[2:29] NIXON: Good.
[2:30] WOODS: for thirty people, with Bebe as the host.
[2:32] NIXON: That's good.
[2:33] WOODS: And then Friday night is the rehearsal dinner at the F Street Club, which is forty people.
[2:38] NIXON: Right, fine.
[2:40] WOODS: And and then the non-rehearsal people, dinner on the Sequoia, sixty people.
[2:43] NIXON: Right, good.
[2:44] WOODS: And then on Saturday is the wedding.
[2:46] NIXON: Right.
[2:47] WOODS: And on Sunday, Helene Drown is having eighty people at the F Street Club.
[2:50] NIXON: Great, well that takes care of everything then. Okay, that's fine.
[2:53] WOODS: Do you have, are you, what about tomorrow night, Mr. President?
[2:55] NIXON: Tomorrow night? I don't know, whatever you got there, what is it?
[2:58] WOODS: Well, tomorrow night it says, "The President, Mrs. Nixon, Tricia, and Julie, quiet dinner at the White House."
[3:01] NIXON: Fine, we need that.
[3:02] WOODS: Yeah.
[3:03] NIXON: Okay, thank you.
[3:04] WOODS: Yes, sir.